Scientists select and discuss predecessors who inspired their work and lives.
Radio 4 Extra,·10 episodes
Mark Spencer explains why Sir Hans Sloane is his Natural History Hero.
28 Sep 2015,·15 mins
Richard Sabin explains why comparative anatomist Edward Tyson is his Natural History Hero.
29 Sep 2015,·15 mins
Palaeontologist Tori Herridge explains why Dorothea Bate is her Natural History Hero.
30 Sep 2015,·15 mins
Robert Prys Jones explains why Allan Octavian Hume is his Natural History Hero.
01 Oct 2015,·15 mins
Sandy Knapp explains why Alice Eastwood is her Natural History Hero.
02 Oct 2015,·15 mins
Paul Barrett's Natural History Hero is paleontologist Franz Baron Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás
05 Oct 2015,·15 mins
Beulah Garner explains why entomologist Evelyn Cheesman is her Natural History Hero.
06 Oct 2015,·15 mins
Erica McAllister explains why entomologist George Verrall is her Natural History Hero.
07 Oct 2015,·15 mins
George Beccaloni chooses naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace as his Natural History Hero.
08 Oct 2015,·15 mins
Andrew Parker's Natural History Hero is microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
09 Oct 2015,·15 mins